Video Game Soundtracks

[David]

Something that comes up every once is a while is that people are looking for Video Game soundtracks. Turns out there is a quite a few on Spotify already.

I've tried to collect everything I find in a playlist, which I update fairly regularly as soon as I find things. Check below.

A personal favourite is the soundtrack from Red Dead Redemption. Let me know your thoughts below. 

EDIT - I'm trying out our "Play Anywhere" button, but it caps out at 1000 tracks - the link to the full playlist is here - Video Game Music!

[Richard]

I guess you're not including Lana Del Rey – Video Games ?

[overfloater]

Hah, I'd vaguely considered doing something similar ... so thanks for saving me the effort!

Mirror's Edge has my favorite soundtrack by far. Glad to see you've got it nice and high on the list.  

Introduction (for all that it was given a sadly immemorable name) knocked me out from the moment I fired up the game: game soundtrack or not, it's one of the best downtempo tracks ever, and easily one of my favorite tracks, period. The fact that it fits the game's intro/menu sequence perfectly, and that it's essentially a remix of the main "Still Alive" theme that people know, just makes it even more impressive.

There have been lots of rumors and indications of a sequel to ME -- possibly using BF3's Frostbite 2 engine (which would be awesome) -- but no solid movement that I've seen. So I'm hoping EA has the sense to do something more with such an interesting IP and doesn't let it stagnate, and I'm really hoping they tap Magnus Birgersson to do the soundtrack again. The visuals and gameplay were fantastic on their own but the soundtrack gelled the whole experience together into something more.

[David]

I was a big fan of Mirror's Edge too, although I rattled through that in a day. Frostbite would be a pretty good fit, although jumping over stuff in Battlefield 3 can still look "janky" in places.

Edit - Added some more tracks today. Ever wanted to listen to the soundtrack to Advent Rising and Conker: Live and Reloaded? Now you can. 

[David]

Now playing - the exceptional Sword and Sworcery soundtrack.

[Lollerskater]

Here, have a few more to listen to! 🙂 I've been gathering together video game soundtracks on Spotify for a while now. It's a shame so many are still region restricted, though I appreciate Spotify's efforts to link to as many regionally available alternatives where possible!

Edit: oh hey, let's throw out a recommendation too! Give the Dustforce soundtrack a try! I like how it mixes an old school vibe with modern production values.

[David]

That's rather monolithic. I take my digital hat off to you, sir!

EDIT - Now added the Fez soundtrack. I'm eagerly awaiting the soundtrack to Journey, too...

[Matshelge · Accepted solution]

I made a little blog about video game music found on spotify http://videogamesounds.blogspot.com/ it has most of albums Lollerskater posted in his link, but also a few he did not have.

I need to make more posts, got a 6 page word document of links that needs writing up.

[Lollerskater]

Blog looks pretty nice, great work! Personally can't wait to see what you still have to post from your Word document, Matshelge. I'll admit: I'm a sucker for video game soundtracks!

Looking for video game soundtracks would be so much easier if the genres matched the albums. Especially as according to Spotify's documentation a "Video Game Music"  genre is available.

[Lollerskater]

Oh dang... thanks to Matshelge's blog and a few more releases popping up the playlist is now up to 9841 tracks. And if I remember correctly the limit was 10k? Or has this been changed recently?

And people were complaining there wasn't enough video game music on Spotify, hehe. 🙂

[Richard]

Best start splitting up the playlists then, perhaps by genre?

FPS Soundtracks, RPG Soundtracks, RTS Soundtracks, etc.

Or maybe by the music genre?

8-Bit Video Game Soundtracks, Orchestral Video Game Soundtracks, Ambient Video Game Soundtracks, etc.

Personally I'd be really logical about it organise it by decade or something like that. But that's just me.

[Matshelge]

I just have multiple playlists, and have them all in folders, easier like that.

As for reaching your limit, yea, you will get that in a while, I have not made a dent in my saved up links. Still have around 30 OST albums, and 30 or so cover bands, and half a dozen orchestral things.

So yea, lots to come, and new post up now 😉

[Makhaon]

I have my own list here - Video Game Soundtracks.

I went through your list and here are a couple that are missing:

Knut Avenstroup Haugen – Age of Conan

Trevor Morris – Army of Two

Tyler Bates – Army of Two: The 40th Day (EA Games Soundtrack)

Various Artists – Batman: Arkham City - The Album

Mikael Karlsson – Battlefield: Bad Company 2

Various Artists – Bionic Commando: The Soundtrack

DVA – Botanicula Soundtrack

Daniel Sadowski – A Boy and His Blob

David McGarry – Brothers In Arms: Earned In Blood "Original Soundtrack"

Ed Lima – Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway "Original Soundtrack"

Stephen Harwood Jr. – Brothers In Arms: Road To Hill 30 "Original Soundtrack"

Brian Tyler – Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

David A. Logan – Captain America: Sentinel Of Liberty Soundtrack

Michiru Yamane – Castlevania: Curse of Darkness (Original Game Soundtracks)

Amon Tobin – Chaos Theory

Amon Tobin – Chaos Theory Remixed

Paradox Interactive – Cities in Motion

Daniel Sadowski – City of Steam (Original Soundtrack)

Steve Jablonsky – Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars

Mikael Sandgren – Command & Conquer: Generals - Zero Hour (EA Games Soundtrack)

Stan LePard – Crimson Skies: High Road To Revenge "Original Soundtrack"

Farfletched – Current: The Gameplaylist

Various – Dance Dance Revolution SuperNOVA

Junkie XL – Darkspore

Paradox Interactive – Defenders of Ardania

Maki Kirioka & Hiroshi Tanabe – Dewy's Adventure (Original Game Soundtracks)

Inon Zur – Dragon Age 2: Epic Time

Inon Zur – Dragon Age 2: The Darker Side

Inon Zur – Dragon Age: Origins

Paradox Interactive – Europa Universalis III Soundtrack

Paradox Interactive – Europa Universalis Rome Soundtrack

Armor Games & Chris Branscome – Exit Path (Original Soundtrack)

Zircon – Fittest - Original Soundtrack

Lance Hayes – Forza Motorsport 3: Original Soundtrack

Various Artists – Freelancer: Original Soundtrack

Steve Jablonsky – Gears Of War 2: The Soundtrack

Lang Lang – Gran Turismo 5 - Original Game Soundtrack played by Lang Lang

Various Artists – Grand Theft Auto

Various Artists – Grand Theft Auto 8 CD Set

Various Artists – Grand Theft Auto IV: Vladivostok FM

Original Motion Picture Soundtrack – Grand Theft Auto Vice City O.S.T. - Volume 3 : Emotion 98.3

Various Artists – Grand Theft Auto Vice City O.S.T. - Volume 4: Flash FM

Various – Grand Theft Auto Vice City OST (Greatest Hits)

Ghostface Killah & Doom – Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars

London Philharmonic Orchestra – The Greatest Video Game Music

Various Artists – Halo 2 Volume 1: Original Soundtrack

Martin O'Donnell – Halo 2 Volume 2: Original Soundtrack

Martin O'Donnell – Halo: Original Soundtrack

Kubatko – Hexage Games Soundtrack

Nicolai Groenborg – Interstellar Marines: The Beginning (Original Videogame Soundtrack)

Jack Wall – Jade Empire: Original Soundtrack

Various Artists – Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days Official Game Soundtrack

Paradox Interactive – King Arthur II

[Makhaon]

Continuing with more not in the current list:

The Daniel Pemberton TV Orchestra – Little BIG Music Extra: More LittleBIGPlanet 2 Musical Oddities

The Daniel Pemberton TV Orchestra – Little BIG Music: Musical Oddities From And Inspired By Little B...

Bill Brown – The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth

Jaime Christopherson – The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth 2

Stephen Geering – LOST IN BLUE 3 (Original Game Soundtracks)

Christopher Lennertz – Mass Effect 2: Lair Of The Shadow Broker

Christopher Lennertz – Mass Effect 2: Overlord

Sean Beeson – Mechowars Soundtrack + Remixes

Michael Giacchino – Medal of Honor: Airborne

Christopher Lennertz – Medal of Honor: European Assault

Christopher Lennertz – Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault

Christopher Lennertz – Medal Of Honor: Rising Sun

Michael Giacchino – Medal Of Honor: Vanguard

Various Artists – Might & Magic Heroes VI (Original Game Soundtrack)

C418 – Minecraft - Volume Alpha

EA Games Soundtrack – Monopoly Streets

Jeremy Soule – Monster Galaxy (Original Soundtrack)

Michael Bross – Music From Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath Vol. 1

Junkie XL – Music from SSX Blur

Various Artists – The Music of Grand Theft Auto IV

Trevor Morris – Need For Speed: Carbon

Ekstrak – Need for Speed: Carbon (EA Games Soundtrack)

Paul Linford – Need for Speed: Most Wanted

Junkie XL – Need For Speed: Prostreet

Pinar Toprak – Ninety-Nine Nights: Original Soundtrack

Sebastian Aav – Overwatch: Original Soundtrack

Various Artists – Perfect Dark Zero: Original Soundtrack

Paradox Interactive – The Pirates of Black Cove

Darrell Brown – Playground

Zircon – Return All Robots! Original Soundtrack

Christopher Young – The Saboteur (EA Games Soundtrack) - Single

Bob & Barn – Sega Rally Revo: Original Soundtrack

Shaun White Snowboarding (Original Soundtrack) – Shaun White Snowboarding: Official Soundtrack

Shinobi Ninja – Shinobi Ninja Attacks: The Video Game EP

Winifred Phillips – SimAnimals

Trevor Morris – SimCity Societies

Steve Jablonsky – The Sims 3

Steve Jablonsky – The Sims 3 - NextGen

Steve Jablonsky – The Sims 3: Generations

Steve Jablonsky – The Sims 3: Late Night

John Debney – The Sims Medieval Vol. 1

John Debney – The Sims Medieval Vol. 2

Marc Russo – The Sims: Unleashed

Jerry Martin – The Sims: Vacation (EA Games Soundtrack)

EA Games Soundtrack – Skate.

Colin O'Malley – Superman Returns

The Daniel Indart Project – Tropico - Paradise Island

The Daniel Indart Project – Tropico 2 - Pirate Cove

Various Artists – True Crime - Streets Of L.A.

Acumen Nation – Unbound Saga: Official Game Soundtrack

Paradox Interactive – Victoria II

Various Artists – Viking Battle For Asgard: The Soundtrack

Paradox Interactive – Warlock: Master of the Arcane

Josh Whelchel – Wind-Up Knight (Original Soundtrack)

Alexei Zakharov – X3: Albion Prelude (Soundtrack)

[David]

Thanks!

I did a major update of some stuff a little while back, and sneaked in a track from my current addiction of Super Hexagon...

[David]

I don't tend to include too many licensed tracks in my collection, but I really liked Spec Ops: The Line's use of them. I've made a playlist for it right here. 

[David]

I managed to fill up the playlist to 10,000 tracks. So, I've started a new one to keep up to date.

Video Game Music! 2.0

[Moonman]

I can't get to this play list anymore.  I need it!  I see there is a version 2, but where did the playlist "Video Game Music!" go?  Maybe this is a spotify problem dealing with the size of it.  aarrg.  The playlist used to work.

[joshsohn007]

Hi, I'm a composer based in Salt Lake City. I recently composed a piece called "Western Shanghai" for Anime inspired game, Middara (Succubus Publishing). It was commissioned for their interactive app to be used with their board game. If you haven't seen the artwork for Middara, check it out on their website - http://succubuspublishing.com/middara-gallery/

It incorporates an EDM beat with strings and orchestra. They loved it and hope you guys too!

• Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/5CJuxMlTuwtxHhVdelpI3d

[allisterbrimble]

I released my Amiga Works game music album a couple of years ago (Kickstarter funded) which are you welcome to add to the play list. There's also the Spectrum Works which are much more retro from the 8 bit era but redone to modern day standard.

The links are here:

THE AMIGA WORKS

https://open.spotify.com/album/6LgeF49Qf6Ry6KtvzgStFN

spotify:album:6LgeF49Qf6Ry6KtvzgStFN

THE SPECTRUM WORKS

https://open.spotify.com/album/4ifVYFknoIF5sqyQCsP8jm

spotify:album:4ifVYFknoIF5sqyQCsP8jm